Patrick Grant had said pre-show this collection was inspired by the portraits of scarecrows by British photographer Peter Mitchell. Yet anyone anticipating a straw-strewn Savile Row interpretation of Worzel Gummidge had their hopes dashed. Grant is far too meticulous for that.

When Patrick Grant went to a friend’s 1985-themed 30th birthday party recently, the birthday girl and her contemporaries were dressed as Madonna, Michael Jackson, and other icons of a year they were too young to remember.